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Topic: VDR - really frustrated - color buttons on remote does not work as they should (Read 3534 times)

I have searched what I could but found no working solution for getting the colour keys on my MCE remote woring with VDR I spent the whole evening and night (7 hours) looking into logs, trying out things but did not get any further.

I am using an USB/UIRT and some of the buttons on my Phillips SRM 5100 was different than the standard MCE remote. The color buttons and the "Text" buttons i then added using thge wiki howto. But the keys dont work in VDR ...

Has anyone got an idea how I can get them working?

Do they work using LIRC instead ? I really wanted to only have the USBUIRT in the living room, but if it works i will try some LIRC, maybe with another infrared reciever - for example the one that came with the remote.

red no effectgreen ui2 menu bar plus osdyellow flashes light/vol 'rose'blue no effectText does nothing and leaves error in /var/log/pluto/50_USB_UIRT_0038.logBack Shows the main LinuxMCE menu, second press removes it againStop Stops VDR replay and stops LiveTV too - I am back in the screensaver Sad should only stop VDR replay.

I have searched what I could but found no working solution for getting the colour keys on my MCE remote woring with VDR I spent the whole evening and night (7 hours) looking into logs, trying out things but did not get any further.

I am using an USB/UIRT and some of the buttons on my Phillips SRM 5100 was different than the standard MCE remote. The color buttons and the "Text" buttons i then added using thge wiki howto. But the keys dont work in VDR ...

Has anyone got an idea how I can get them working?

Do they work using LIRC instead ? I really wanted to only have the USBUIRT in the living room, but if it works i will try some LIRC, maybe with another infrared reciever - for example the one that came with the remote.

red no effectgreen ui2 menu bar plus osdyellow flashes light/vol 'rose'blue no effectText does nothing and leaves error in /var/log/pluto/50_USB_UIRT_0038.logBack Shows the main LinuxMCE menu, second press removes it againStop Stops VDR replay and stops LiveTV too - I am back in the screensaver Sad should only stop VDR replay.

GreetingsViking

Hi,

Look at the device template for the remote you have selected... in my case its device template 1622 (standard MCE Remote). Look at the Device Data field (you will need to click in the field and drag to select all of the text inside it... then copy it and paste it into a text editor. The codes in this field are the ones mapped to the remotes buttons when you startup or do a reload.

Look at the device template for the remote you have selected... in my case its device template 1622 (standard MCE Remote). Look at the Device Data field (you will need to click in the field and drag to select all of the text inside it... then copy it and paste it into a text editor. The codes in this field are the ones mapped to the remotes buttons when you startup or do a reload.

I think I already did (before writing the previous post). But it does not work like I would expect.

I created a new template with the data from template #1622 and replaced the previous text, red, green, yellow and blue lines with this :text 3F2C1CF340F1 3F2C1DF350F1red 3F2C1EF340F1 3F2C1FF350F1green 412EC4F340F1 412EC5F350F1yellow 3F2C12F340F1 3F2C13F350F1blue 412EC0F340F1 412EC1F350F1

Now the keys react on the presses, but unfortunatly not in VDR it just reacts like described in the first post. I found someone else having the same problem, but unfortunatly he posted no solution.

EDIT:Andrew - maybe you are using a special version of VDR where this has been fixed - or it is a bug in Niz32's version of VDR (even if he says that taht was what he was working on). Can you give me some tips on how this works ? That might help me understand and fix the problem. USB-UIRT gets the signal, then some part of LinuxMCE and what happens after that ?

4. edit the template #1622 and insert the "## NEW - VERY SHORT color keys only - lirc config of Windows MCE remote #1622" from further down below "#59 Configuration(string)" under "Default Value".We have changed the names of the color buttons and added "VDR" in front of them so the only react in VDR.

5. go to the web interface and select "mce_usb2" below "Infrared interface" on the MD.

now an "ps ax|grep lircd" should show lirc running. Maybe a quick relaod is necessary

6. Add remote control device #1622 also below "Media Director"With a bit of luck the remote should work now.

Thanks, Viking, for your solution. But I'm confused a bit. Do color buttons work with LinuxMCE functions? You re-map color buttons in the LIRCd.conf. So, it wouldn't possible to call menu during playback of video file, for example, right? Andrew, what solution do you use for your clients if it isn't secret of course?

I ended up with a solution that only remapped the color buttons and one button to get the VDR menu and IIRC one button for VDR back.The Windows key is still mapped to linuxmce menu.

But now I am using a gyration remote and switched to MythTV because I could not get a satisfying video picture in VDR. I allways had tearing and stuttering. With MythTV and VDPAU it is good Only switching times (channel to channel) is not so good abou 4 seconds - that is a bit long.

Well, the color buttons are used in MythTV as well aren't they? So, you should find solution for them as well. Not sure about gyration remote.

Still would like to here Andrew's solution if it's possible

The colour buttons are used extensively all through the UI in VDR obviously and in MythTv to interact with Myth's MHEG engine when using an interactive service (MHEG is used here in the UK on DVB-T/S and also in New Zealand to).

In our VDR integration we have full support for the colour buttons both in the MCE template and in the Nokia screens too. I think the vdr integration in 0810 is architected in a different manner to our ie the devs took a different direction (but all of our code is available to the devs...apart from our N800/N810 screens which have not been released).

Thank for your answer, Andrew. Does your VDR implementation (I mean the code) for color buttons is available for 0710?

Yes as all our commercial systems are based on 0710 currently. The code we have provided already supports the colour buttons...but the issue is how that code gets integrated as we have taken a different route to achieve the integration.